Football players are ridiculously tough, and possess just the right amount of crazy.
In Saturday’s game vs. the inferior Central Michigan University, Virginia Tech Hokies starting offensive Guard, Greg Nosal, got tangled–you know, tangled isn’t right–the tip of his left pinkie was torn off between two helmets early in the game.
Here’s how it went down: Most players wear gloves these days, yeah? Nosal wears gloves. His finger got smashed, and as he was trying to return some feeling to it in the midst of the huddle, he noticed the blood beginning to pool in the tip of his glove. Once he hit the sideline, he pulled off his glove and noticed the exposed bone.
He ran to the trainer, asked them to tape it up, but they insisted that he hit the training room to have it evaluated. At that point, they realized that the entire top of his pinky was missing. They thought it was lost on the field of play–Nosal suggested they look in his glove. EUREKA! Team doctor figures, “We can sew that thing back on.”
Instead, dude opts to wrap it up, pop some pain pills and get back on the field. And he stayed on the field until the game was virtually decided in the 4th quarter, when the pain medication began to wear off. At that point, they took him into the medical facility and sewed his fingertip back onto his left pinkie.
How’s that for legend and lore? I would love to tour the Virginia Tech campus about 35 years from now, and see if the story still circulates. Greg Nosal, if you come across this collecting stories for a scrap book–brother, I got nothing but mad respect for you! I’ve got to put you in the toughness crew with greats like Walter Payton, Emmitt Smith, Jack Lambert and few others who played all busted up to get the job done.
And the Hokies did get the job done–winning 45-21
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